Author: Duncan McLeod

Former MTN CEO Sifiso Dabengwa was given a R23,7m golden handshake after resigning from the telecommunications group last year. Dabengwa resigned from the company on 9 November 2015, just months after

The money MTN paid its top executive management team, including its former CEO Sifiso Dabengwa, jumped to R165,6m in the 2015 financial year. That’s an increase of 18,8% over the R139,4m it paid in 2014, driven higher by three golden

Imagine downloading 5 000 movies per second over your Internet connection. Those are the ultimate speeds being promised by a new, multibillion-rand submarine cable system that is to be built to connect South Africa and East Africa to Asia and

In this edition of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the new Africa-1 cable system and Vumatel raising more funding. Also this week, they discuss MTN’s ongoing Nigerian headache and

Altron is actively pursuing a sale of its set-top box manufacturing business, Altech UEC, TechCentral has established reliably from two well-placed sources. The group, which is disposing of noncore assets in a restructuring process that will see it focus on its

Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has relaunched its small and medium enterprise business in an effort to claim a bigger chunk of the growing segment, in the process ditching

Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network. The parties have not

Reunert, the holding company of Nashua, ECN, PanSolutions and other brands, intends using the billions of rand on its balance sheet – including the proceeds of the sale of Nashua Mobile

Cape Town-based Wi-Fi start-up Asimmetric has raised a “seven-figure US dollar amount” in new funding from venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Founded by experts in the telecommunications industry, Asimmetric

Telkom has cut a further 1 184 jobs through voluntary retrenchments, representing more than 8% of the company’s workforce, prompting trade union Solidarity to warn of a “massive skills shortage” at